Letters

0 comments "If we hit zero, what do we do?" wonders Larry Tropea, executive director of the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, in your story "Doomsday: What happens when it's all gone?" [September 26,...

0 commentsCoy Barefoot never gets around to telling us why he actually does shop at Wal-Mart [Essay, "Guilty: Why I shop at Wal-Mart," September 26, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/92528/essay-guilty-why-i-...

0 commentsWell, you've really done it now– gone and printed some musings of Patricia Kluge and passed it off as just good reading ["Hot Seat," September 19, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/92477/hot-...

0 commentsThanks for running the article on The Toaster Museum (http://www.readthehook.com/92433/news-toaster-museum-kitchen-nostalgia-p...)– we appreciate the continued interest in the status of our...

0 comments With amusement, and a bit of disappointment, I've been following some of the music related sniping going on in recent issues of The Hook. I think your music writers generally do a good job, and...

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I was disappointed to read of the animosity between Marlene Condon and county fair officials over the issue of captured wild animals being used for events at the fair. Both Ms. Condon and the...

0 comments Mark Grabowski's review of the George Turner Trio's August 20 performance at Michael's Bistro [On the Prowl, "Better on CD," August 29, 2002] underscored several misgivings I have with music...

0 commentsI have never been a fan of John Whitehead, but the coverage in The Hook [Hot Seat, August 22, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/92395/hot-seat-john-whitehead-civil-libertari...) has sealed it in...

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Many thanks for your Annual Manual [August 15, 2002]. This issue is not headed for the recycling bin. It definitely is a keeper. Thanks again.
Elaine MuntnerLake Monticello
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I am one of those "old gals" who comes out of "nowhere every Summer" to play in the city's "oom-pah" band [Annual Manual, August 9, 2002]. Man, was I surprised to find I "appear" at a certain...

0 comments Thank you for the inclusion of the [August 22] article by Lisa Provence on Swami Satchidananda, "Yoga master dies teaching peace in India."
The article was informative and well done considering...

0 commentsTo his many musical friends and fans, trumpeter John Dearth's music needs no defense. However, for those who may not know him (few though they may be, in these parts), I feel compelled to respond to...

0 commentsTo clarify my response in last week's question of the week: The question I was asked was "What do you think of nudie bars coming to Charlottesville?" [August 8, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/...

0 commentsMany thanks to The Hook for telling the real story behind what's going on over at The Observer ["Observer staffers cry foul," July 25] (http://www.readthehook.com/92323/news-valley-volley-observer-...

0 commentsIt's a pleasure to find a local publication which gives information regarding movies, where they 're playing, and the times the films are shown.
As a person who works in the hospitality industry and...

0 comments[In reference to the July 18 Cover Story, "Tale of Two Houses"] (http://www.readthehook.com/92295/cover-story-poison-ivy-if-you-build-it-...) I found the comment by a "longtime Ivy homeowner"...

0 commentsThere's a word for using someone else's property without asking permission.
It's called stealing.
If you were to use your neighbor's lawnmower, or drive away in his car, without his permission, you...

0 commentsI'm 14 pages into The Hook's current issue [June 27, 2002] (http://www.readthehook.com/issues/0121) and have read, at least four times in three different pieces, the word "limn."
Yes, it's a nice...